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Word: authorative (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Claude Farrere, racy French novelist (Les Civiliises), bowling along in an automobile with his friend, Author Pierre Benoit (Les Suppliantes), was injured in a crash near Toulouse, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

That is the answer which Author Eipper gives to Berliners who ask him, "Why do you go to the Zoo every morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Life | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...leaves him after their first night. Denouement: the Baron hears that his night of love was the result of a curse, muttered by the prima donna's previous lover on his deathbed. Upon hearing this the Baron can do nothing but die of shock, which he promptly does. Author Schnitzler's characters die easily, often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nerve Specialist | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Called "The essence of Vienna" by everyone but the Viennese, Author Schnitzler gained a reputation for gay cynicism before the War. Since that time his work suggests an aging literary "master," sitting in an old fashioned study with blinded windows, busy with devious, psychological speculations and memories. He is a doctor, and a literary nerve specialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nerve Specialist | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Pessek was an orang-outang who closed her shutters when visitors bored her, who politely returned Author Eipper the peels and pips of a gift-orange. Mr. Eipper next looked at the pale faery eyes of a Bengal tigress, fixed on distance like those of some Eastern image. He watched the pelican gulp fish. He sat down and let four orang-outang infants clamber over him and played with them as an equal. From the rear he looked at the young elephants- "like forlorn village children in the Sunday pants of a corpulent parent." Only the chimpanzees disturbed him. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Life | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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